Re: English-esque Vocabulary Range
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 16, 2003, 15:10 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
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> I doubt it. Latin Sinae < Gk < Skt, the place where silk came from.
> But Japan would have had little or no effect on commerce in Roman
> times.
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Is that then my interest in anime that made me encounter the prefix "nippo-"
quite often? ;)))) I admit reading it mostly in French texts though.
Note that Muke asked for a (pseudo-)Latinate prefix, not necessarily a true
Latinate one ;))) . "Nippo-" fits the criterion IMHO ;))) .
Christophe.
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